Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankentaler and Joan Mitchell. They were part of the Abstract Expressionist movement in the fifties. These 5 women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. Ninth Street Women is the remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not jut a postwar America but the future,